Conrad's Decentered Fiction
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- Author: Johan Adam Warodell, University of Sussex
- Date Published: March 2022
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What are the fingerprints of Joseph Conrad's fiction? This richly illustrated book argues that Conrad's vibrant details set him apart as a writer and brings them from the margins to the center for study. With recently discovered primary sources - including drawings and maps in Conrad's own hand - this book travels widely across Conrad's fiction and explores its interest in marginal voices, characters and details. It produces a new picture of Conrad as a writer, and the first picture of Conrad as an amateur sketch artist. Introducing new critical vocabulary and applying new names from art history to Conrad studies, the book ranges across cartography, fashion, analytic philosophy, manuscript studies, and animal studies to discover Conrad as an artist operating across and between different media. Offered as a complement to the abstract approaches of much literary theory, this detail-driven and margin-focused monograph mirrors the characteristic granular nature of Conrad's fiction.
Read more- Richly illustrated with previously unseen and unexplored primary sources, including drawings, maps and doodles in Conrad's own hand
- Spans all of Conrad's major and minor fiction and covers a variety of topics including fashion, cartography, visual art, analytic philosophy, and animal studies
- Focuses on Conrad's detail-rich writing
Reviews & endorsements
'… a valuable and unique contribution to Conrad scholarship … Recommended’ J. G. Peters, Choice
See more reviews‘a convincing and original perspective … reverses the meaning of literary marginality as we know it today’ Tania Zulli, The Cambridge Quarterly
‘This is a bold and imaginative book’ Kim Salmons, Modern Fiction Studies
‘an impressive series of critical firsts’ Nic Panagopoulos, English Studies
‘a thoroughly diverting book’ Hugh Epstein, The Conradian
‘Warodell points to a goldmine of descriptive detail in Conrad’ Beci Carver, English
‘Conrad’s Decentred Fiction reaches those parts other studies cannot reach, and Warodell observes things about Conrad’s work that no critic has observed before’ Nic Panagopoulos, Joseph Conrad Today
‘like no other book of Conrad criticism … a cabinet of curiosities: a collection of details that Conradians have consistently overlooked’ Yael Levin, Journal of Modern Literature
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- Date Published: March 2022
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781009079372
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Part I. Preprint Documents: Paper, Pen and Ink:
1. Doodles and The Shadow-Line
2. Maps and Victory, 'Geography and Some Explorers', 'The Secret Sharer', and An Outcast of the Islands
3. Drawings and The Sisters
Part II. Published Texts: Working Method and Philosophy:
4. Decoding and 'Heart of Darkness'
5. Distraction and 'Heart of Darkness', Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes
6. Details and The Secret Agent
Part III. Patterns and Preoccupations: Marginal Voices and Characters:
7. Voices and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
8. Hats, Nostromo, 'The Secret Sharer', and The Secret Agent
9. Animals, 'Heart of Darkness', and 'The Planter of Malata'.
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